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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CamaroDMD, post: 1530657, member: 5233&quot;]Your example isn&#039;t entirely accurate.&nbsp; A 1995 $1 note and a 1995 nickel are very different things.&nbsp; First, the note was printed in 1999 so lets compare it to a 1999 nickel.&nbsp; A paper note is designed to last in circulation for 12-18 months.&nbsp; So, this note should have been gone from circulation by 2001 or so.&nbsp; A coin is designed to last for 30 years...so that 1999 nickel should be gone around 2029.&nbsp; So, that note has survived about 10x longer than it was intended while the coin has only lived a third of it&#039;s projected life.&nbsp; Now, I&#039;m not saying it&#039;s like finding a 300 year old coin in circulation (which would be the equivalent of a coin surviving for 10x it&#039;s expected life)...but it&#039;s certainly less common than a 1999 nickel.&nbsp; I would compare finding this note to finding a nickel from the 1950s in circulation.&nbsp; It&#039;s not rare...and most of us have found them but it doesn&#039;t happen that often.&nbsp; I know many coin collectors who pluck old nickels out of circulation even though they don&#039;t have much value and I know plenty who don&#039;t bother with them and just spend them.&nbsp; But, I see noting crazy about saving these notes.&nbsp; It&#039;s not my thing either, but I do see the reasoning behind it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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